Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1912 — SECRET OF SUCCESS OF FAMOUS PITCHER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SECRET OF SUCCESS OF FAMOUS PITCHER

“Whatever success I have had in baseball is due to hard study and hard work,’said.Ed Walsh, the Chicago pitcher. -------- “I had sense enough to keep my eyes and ears open when I joined the White Sox In those days the team had a lot 6f smart pitchers, men who did things, and who used their heads all the time. Every time I saw one of them pull off something I made a sneak over toward the club house and tried it myself to see whether or not I could do it. I worked as hard in those days as ever a man worked in a mine or a mill. I was determined I was going to be a pitcher. Comiskey and Jones both coached me, told me what to do and how to do It, but they could not make me a pitcher. A fellow has to do that for himself.”

Ed Walsh, Chicago White Sox Twirler.